Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - August 17, 2026


What’s Inside the Fang Fang Files? Full coverage! | Triggered Ep.368


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00:06:21.000 Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
00:06:24.000 I hope you all had a great weekend and are enjoying this Monday.
00:06:29.000 So, a lot going on this week.
00:06:31.000 The old Fang Fang FBI files are now out in the open.
00:06:34.000 And with, you know, code names like Freshman 15 and Rusty Thumbs, I'm actually not making this up.
00:06:42.000 Well, anyway, we'll explain shortly.
00:06:45.000 And, you know, there's a lot of other stuff to get into as well.
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00:08:21.000 Washington debates are complicated.
00:08:23.000 This one isn't.
00:08:24.000 Cell phone carriers use mobile locking to trap your phone on their network, keeping you stuck with high prices when switching could save you $1,000 a year.
00:08:33.000 Americans are fed up.
00:08:35.000 93% of voters say switching carriers should be easy and about as easy as keeping your number.
00:08:41.000 You should be able to take your phone without being locked into the rules, okay?
00:08:46.000 If you agree, speak up.
00:08:48.000 Tell officials you want cell phone freedom, okay? 0.97
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00:09:00.000 All right, guys, let's get into all of it.
00:09:02.000 And we're going to go overseas first.
00:09:04.000 Because my father just welcomed a major new defense agreement.
00:09:08.000 And, you know, that may sound a little boring than the usual, but it's actually big news.
00:09:14.000 Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement.
00:09:20.000 And it says an armed attack on one will be treated as an armed attack on all three.
00:09:27.000 And it's the first major step towards those countries defending themselves together.
00:09:35.000 Is because it's yet another example of America demanding capability, accountability, and investment in their own region, right?
00:09:45.000 Forging new packs, letting people actually defend themselves so we don't just have to come in and write the check for it, whether it's with cash or with boots on the ground. 0.90
00:09:53.000 You know, it's just like we saw with the Abram Court. 0.93
00:09:57.000 Strong allies should bring capability, money, and some risk to the table, okay? 0.97
00:10:04.000 You got to have some skin in the game, okay?
00:10:06.000 They should not hand Washington the bill and just.
00:10:08.000 Wait for an American carrier every time their neighborhood gets a little bit dangerous.
00:10:14.000 If you want to be an ally, show us.
00:10:17.000 Don't tell us.
00:10:18.000 Do what you say you're going to do.
00:10:21.000 And the same rule is working here at home, where we're now showing, and it's causing quite a deterrence, and it's backed by big consequences because across the nation and even inside major American cities, crime is hitting record lows.
00:10:39.000 Lows we haven't seen since the 1950s.
00:10:43.000 Check this out.
00:10:44.000 New data from the FBI shows that in 2025, the U.S. saw its largest yearly drop in violent crime.
00:10:51.000 Since they started tracking it nearly a century ago.
00:10:57.000 These days, the sounds of sirens are less frequent in Newark, New Jersey, a city long known for its high crime rate.
00:11:04.000 I feel it's getting a lot safer.
00:11:06.000 Safety in Newark is very good right now.
00:11:08.000 Recent data shows Newark saw the largest decline in homicides among major cities in the country, down more than 64% for the first half of this year compared to that period last year.
00:11:20.000 Emmanuel Miranda is Newark's director of public safety.
00:11:23.000 I think that everyone should be able to take pride in the work that we're doing.
00:11:28.000 So far this year, some cities like Chicago have seen an increase in homicides, while many major cities like Baltimore and Philadelphia are down about a quarter.
00:11:38.000 The FBI says last year, the U.S. saw its lowest murder rate in roughly 70 years.
00:11:43.000 President Trump says his administration deserves the credit.
00:11:47.000 We ended the war on police, and we declared a very strong war on crime.
00:11:53.000 Adam Gell, president and CEO of the Council on Criminal Justice, Says crime has been trending down since 2022.
00:12:00.000 So, that consistency across the map that we're seeing in the drops in crime should really make us cautious about handing credit to any one leader, one party, program before the evidence catches up with the facts.
00:12:12.000 In Newark, Miranda credits his city's success to a combination of strong police work, new technology, and community engagement.
00:12:20.000 It's us working with our community, the community working with us to be able to achieve these kind of numbers.
00:12:27.000 Data shows the violent crime rate for most large cities has continued to drop.
00:12:31.000 So far this year, some experts estimate the homicide rate for 2026 is on track to beat last year's historic low.
00:12:39.000 Doug?
00:12:40.000 A fascinating look at those numbers.
00:12:42.000 Allie Bauman, thank you.
00:12:43.000 The final FBI numbers for 2025 show violent crime down 9.3%.
00:12:51.000 I mean, that's big.
00:12:52.000 In one year, 9.3%.
00:12:54.000 And homicides, more importantly, murderers, down 18.1%.
00:13:00.000 Unheard of.
00:13:01.000 The national homicide rate.
00:13:03.000 Fell to its lowest level since 1956, and the early numbers for 2026 are still dropping.
00:13:13.000 An analysis of 66 large cities found homicides down another, another 17.2% in the first half of the year.
00:13:25.000 It's especially humbling to be here with the President of the United States, who's going to come out and announce the largest reduction in violent crime in the history of the United States of America.
00:13:42.000 President Trump, thank you for backing law enforcement.
00:13:45.000 Thank you for funding law enforcement.
00:13:47.000 Thank you for loving law enforcement.
00:13:49.000 Thank you for relentlessly pursuing the mission of justice with the warriors of justice across this country.
00:13:55.000 The men and women of law enforcement love you, and that is why we are seeing these historic results around the country to include a 20% drop in the national homicide rate, to include a 20% reduction in drug overdose deaths.
00:14:07.000 To include violent offenders seized from around the world.
00:14:10.000 This FBI has led the charge to arrest eight of the top 10 most wanted fugitives on planet Earth in the last 16 months under President Trump.
00:14:19.000 And the results are even more concrete when you look at fentanyl.
00:14:23.000 You know, that scourge that's killed so many people, so many great Americans.
00:14:27.000 Every demographic just, you know, just unabashedly killed everyone.
00:14:32.000 We all know someone, we were all close to someone who died of it.
00:14:35.000 It's crazy.
00:14:37.000 More than 3,200 kilograms of fentanyl seized since 2025.
00:14:43.000 More than 247 million potentially lethal doses.
00:14:49.000 Okay, almost enough to take out like 75% of the country.
00:14:52.000 More than 200 million doses, dollars in assets confiscated.
00:14:58.000 And 59 Homeland Security task forces with more than 9,000 personnel.
00:15:05.000 That's a big deal.
00:15:06.000 That's a big change.
00:15:08.000 We're finally attacking this problem.
00:15:10.000 And more importantly, we're seeing results for doing it.
00:15:14.000 The largest fentanyl seizure in state history.
00:15:17.000 The largest fentanyl bust in state history.
00:15:20.000 More than 1.6 tons of fentanyl off the streets this year.
00:15:24.000 Fentanyl doesn't start on an American street corner.
00:15:27.000 And under Director Kash Patel, the FBI isn't waiting for it to get there.
00:15:32.000 They're going after the whole supply chain.
00:15:35.000 The chemical suppliers in China.
00:15:37.000 Chinese precursors.
00:15:39.000 The cartels moving it across borders. 1.00
00:15:42.000 The poison pill factories.
00:15:44.000 The dot net dealers shipping it, the street thugs selling it, and the dirty money financing it all.
00:15:51.000 If you're trafficking this poison, we will find you. 0.59
00:15:54.000 They've built the infrastructure to fight it at every level.
00:15:58.000 President Trump has shut off the pipeline that creates fentanyl.
00:16:03.000 A new counter cartel coordination center brings intelligence and law enforcement resources together against the cartel.
00:16:10.000 Stop fentanyl precursors.
00:16:12.000 Across the country, 59 Homeland Security task force.
00:16:16.000 Forces staffed by more than 9,000 agents, officers, and analysts are taking the fight nationwide to crush the plague of fentanyl.
00:16:24.000 And bureau wide, the results are piling up.
00:16:27.000 More than 3,200 kilograms of fentanyl wiped off the map.
00:16:32.000 That's over 247 million lethal doses, almost 10% higher than the last 18 months of the Biden administration.
00:16:41.000 More than 200 million in assets confiscated.
00:16:44.000 Thousands of arrests.
00:16:46.000 And thousands of weapons seized.
00:16:48.000 From the chemicals to the cartel to the dealer to the dollar, the strategies changed.
00:16:54.000 The FBI doesn't just catch the fentanyl, they destroy the entire network from top to bottom.
00:17:01.000 This is yet another example of how President Trump defends the American people, provides security for the American people, and puts the American people first.
00:17:17.000 So, would you think that if there's, I don't know, One thing we could all agree on, if there's one thing we can all say is a good thing, it's reducing crime, reducing murder, pulling fentanyl off the streets, and, you know, I don't know, bolstering public safety.
00:17:36.000 However, let me draw your attention to one of the strangest lawsuits in the country right now.
00:17:44.000 21 states, and of course, Washington, D.C., have gone to the courts.
00:17:51.000 To block the Department of Transportation from accessing the Commercial Driver's License Information System, okay? 0.84
00:17:59.000 The CDLs, you know, the commercial driver's licenses, the things that they're giving to all the illegals who can't speak English, can't read a road sign, and are killing people every week, right?
00:18:08.000 21 states and the DC area want to stop accessing this.
00:18:15.000 A secure database covering roughly 17 million commercial drivers.
00:18:20.000 Now, the Transportation Department wants to access to verify eligibility and keep unsafe drivers and illegal alien drivers, again, probably one in the same in most cases, off the road.
00:18:35.000 But instead of cooperating, here's what they're doing in Illinois.
00:18:41.000 The Trump administration is demanding that states surrender sensitive personal information of 17 million drivers, including social security numbers, dates of birth, and driver's license numbers.
00:18:53.000 This has nothing to do with public safety.
00:18:56.000 The Department of Homeland Security issued an immigration enforcement subpoena for the exact same records and acknowledged those efforts are coordinated.
00:19:05.000 When Illinois and other states pushed back and raised serious legal and privacy concerns, the feds responded with an ultimatum.
00:19:13.000 Turn over the data or risk losing federal funding that actually supports the system the states rely on to issue commercial driver's license nationwide.
00:19:22.000 That isn't cooperation, it's coercion and an extraordinary abuse of federal power.
00:19:27.000 Our responsibility is clear protect Illinois' privacy, uphold the law, and safeguard your personal information from misuse.
00:19:35.000 The AG's office is leading a multi state legal effort, and we plan to fight this overreach every step of the way.
00:19:42.000 Illinois' personal information is not the federal government's to take.
00:19:47.000 We will protect it, we will defend the law, and we will not be bullied into handing it over.
00:19:54.000 Okay, so notice what just happened there. 0.95
00:19:57.000 This moron claimed the demand has nothing to do with road safety, but the reason this system exists in the first place is to obviously protect road safety. 0.97
00:20:08.000 That's why we have it, that's what it was created for. 1.00
00:20:11.000 And we don't want illegal aliens, especially those with no qualifications, to be on the highway. 1.00
00:20:17.000 Driving tractor trailers and semis and killing more innocent people. 1.00
00:20:22.000 We've talked about the stories on this show.
00:20:24.000 There's too many to count.
00:20:26.000 So ask yourself if a state issued a commercial license to someone who was not eligible, how is the federal safety agency that governs it supposed to find that out without checking the record?
00:20:40.000 Explain it to me.
00:20:41.000 It doesn't make sense.
00:20:43.000 The people with the most to gain from a clean audit are the honest truckers who trained.
00:20:50.000 Who passed the test, who can read my inner details, you know, and share the highway with everyone else's family.
00:20:58.000 Verification protects the license they earned.
00:21:01.000 And it's just like voter ID.
00:21:02.000 The only people against it are the ones who want to cheat.
00:21:07.000 And the same argument takes us from the highway to the visa system.
00:21:13.000 The State Department launched a birth tourism prevention task force last month, you know, where people do, well, exactly how it sounds, right?
00:21:22.000 Birth tourism.
00:21:22.000 Tourism is exactly how it sounds.
00:21:24.000 Foreign nationals using tourist visas enter the United States while late in their pregnancy for the primary purpose of giving birth here and securing American citizenship for the child. 0.95
00:21:38.000 There are entire businesses built around it travel coaching, agencies, housing, hospital arrangements, fraudulent documents, all designed to turn American citizenship into like an all inclusive, you know, bracelet package. 0.96
00:21:56.000 At Cancun Spring Break.
00:21:58.000 Watch.
00:21:59.000 And now, in an effort to stop all of this once and for all, the State Department has launched a brand new birth tourism prevention task force.
00:22:06.000 They just revoked more than 600 visas in the first month.
00:22:09.000 Let's bring in State Department spokesperson Tommy Piggott.
00:22:12.000 Tommy, we are thrilled to hear about this task force, and 600 visas revoked in a month is quite a lot.
00:22:17.000 What are some examples that you're finding?
00:22:19.000 Well, I can actually say off the top that in just the few days since we announced this task force, that number is actually up to over 750 visas revoked, an additional 150 just in the last few days.
00:22:32.000 That's new information here we're able to say.
00:22:34.000 Some examples we're looking at are.
00:22:36.000 Networks, but also people that are coming on visas that are not for the purpose of giving birth, which is fraud, but instead their tours and visas, their business visas, their other visas.
00:22:45.000 We have examples of people coming to the United States claiming they're going to go on vacation for a week, staying up to five months, and then being coached on how to defraud the American people and not pay their medical bills.
00:22:56.000 We see examples of advertisements globally, of people promising automatic citizenship, of promising a world without borders to people if they pay, get those services to lie to visa officers, come to the United States.
00:23:08.000 And then there's people often based in the United States.
00:23:10.000 That helped these individuals further defraud the United States.
00:23:13.000 So we're putting a stop to this.
00:23:14.000 We're putting a stop to this fraud.
00:23:16.000 We're taking action.
00:23:17.000 We're leveraging the full resources of this administration and this government to put an end to this abuse.
00:23:22.000 But again, you guessed it, folks.
00:23:25.000 For some reason, Democrats say this is cruelty.
00:23:30.000 You know, everyone should be able to just come here, have their baby, and just be a permanent citizen and get to take your taxpayer dollars or, you know, live in China, get indoctrinated by the CCP, and then come back here and, I don't know, run for president.
00:23:41.000 But Democrats say, It's cruelty, just like they claim that sanctuary city policies are somehow compassion.
00:23:49.000 The left calls enforcement cruelty because cruelty is easier to say than accountability.
00:23:56.000 The actual humane policy is a lawful system that knows who entered the country, that knows who violated the terms of the agreement, that knows who committed a serious crime, and acts before another family pays the price.
00:24:14.000 Now, if you want to see what happens when government refuses to check the work for years, I don't know, go to Minnesota.
00:24:22.000 Dozens of people have been convicted in the Feeding Our Futures case and related fraud investigations.
00:24:31.000 Prosecutors say hundreds of millions of dollars were stolen across programs that were supposed to feed children, house the vulnerable, provide autism services, and deliver health care.
00:24:44.000 Guys, this is not a theory, right? 0.58
00:24:46.000 Just like illegals voting isn't a theory.
00:24:49.000 Just like we saw in New Jersey last week, while it's happening, it's not a theory.
00:24:53.000 It's not a rumor.
00:24:55.000 It is a stack of indictments, guilty pleas, convictions, audits, and taxpayer money that did not reach the people it was supposed to help.
00:25:05.000 It was pocketed by criminals.
00:25:08.000 And last week, left wing lunatic governor Peggy Flanagan won the Democrat nomination for the U.S. Senate there. 0.99
00:25:18.000 And She was basically asked, what did she know about the fraud and when did she know it?
00:25:23.000 Well, here's how she responded What about the fraud in your state?
00:25:28.000 Do you take any accountability?
00:25:31.000 It's unacceptable.
00:25:33.000 And there's been work that has been done to stop fraud, prevent it from happening in the first place.
00:25:39.000 No, the question is Do you, you, the lieutenant governor, do you say, I'm talking to you, the lieutenant governor who's running on her record of success?
00:25:51.000 So that you can be the senator, do you take any accountability?
00:25:54.000 She's not going to answer the question.
00:25:57.000 She won't answer the question at all.
00:26:00.000 Let me just tell you, though, the fact that she threw Tim Walz under the bus and then said that any level of fraud is unacceptable.
00:26:06.000 Have you heard her say that?
00:26:07.000 Have you heard her up until this moment ever say, you know, the fact that this money got stolen instead of going to the children and the infirmed that it was supposed to go to?
00:26:16.000 That's not right.
00:26:17.000 Where did you first hear that?
00:26:18.000 You heard that from me in December when Nick Shirley first broke this story.
00:26:22.000 And I said, why aren't Democrats out here angrier than anyone else?
00:26:26.000 Why are they running interference?
00:26:27.000 Why are they circling the wagons?
00:26:28.000 Why are they protecting these obvious criminals?
00:26:32.000 And making this Nick Shirley's fault or Donald Trump's fault instead of saying, Hey, I'm a Democrat.
00:26:38.000 I wanted those big money programs.
00:26:40.000 I took people's tax money against their will so we can pay for these programs so we can help kids.
00:26:44.000 And now kids aren't getting the money.
00:26:46.000 And I'm more pissed off than anybody.
00:26:48.000 You heard that here from me in December.
00:26:51.000 And now for the first time, I'm hearing Peggy Flanagan, now that she's got her nomination and she's trying to act like she's a normal human being when we know she's not.
00:26:59.000 We finally hear her saying the same thing.
00:27:01.000 The fact that she's doing that tells you one thing and one thing only.
00:27:05.000 This is a huge, Vulnerability for her and for her party in Minnesota.
00:27:11.000 The fact that she is saying this instead of the party line we've heard for the last seven, eight months, that there is no fraud, and even if there is, we've done everything we can to stop it, and even if we didn't, it's Donald Trump's fault.
00:27:24.000 That's been the party line until this moment.
00:27:26.000 This tells you this is a huge vulnerability.
00:27:29.000 They know it's a vulnerability, and it's a huge opening for Michelle Tafoya.
00:27:33.000 She has no answers.
00:27:35.000 It's the same non answer that it was, you know, it's someone else's fault.
00:27:41.000 And now we're going to look into it.
00:27:42.000 We're going to look into it hard.
00:27:43.000 It's like OJ looking for the killer.
00:27:45.000 They're looking into it that hard, just walking around in circles.
00:27:49.000 This is why this story matters beyond Minnesota, because it's happening all across the country.
00:27:56.000 Fraud is not a paperwork problem.
00:27:59.000 Every fake meal, every fake treatment, fake client, fake invoice takes real money away from the child, the patient, or the taxpayer who was supposed to receive the benefits.
00:28:12.000 And the government that will not verify eligibility is not compassionate.
00:28:18.000 Okay?
00:28:19.000 Nothing to do with compassion here.
00:28:20.000 It's just generous with someone else's money.
00:28:25.000 The best anti fraud system catches the fake claim before the check goes out.
00:28:30.000 Prosecution matters, recovering the money matters.
00:28:33.000 But taxpayers should not have to lose first and then spend years chasing what is left.
00:28:42.000 Fraud enables criminals.
00:28:45.000 Almost more than anything.
00:28:46.000 It's how they keep the machine running.
00:28:48.000 It's how foreign adversaries and foreign spies take advantage of America, too.
00:28:53.000 And speaking of foreign spies, just the news today published the new Fang Fang files. 0.90
00:29:01.000 Files involving disgraced, scandal plagued, and all around piece of crap, terrible person, former Congressman Eric Swalwell and suspected Chinese intelligence operative Christine Fang, better known again as Fang Fang. 0.86
00:29:17.000 That was a little Fang Fang bang bang going on. 0.96
00:29:19.000 And while this guy was on the Intelligence Committee accusing me of working with Putin.
00:29:26.000 Again, they're always going to accuse you of all the things they're doing.
00:29:28.000 So just keep that in mind.
00:29:31.000 According to an FBI memo, the Bureau opened the matter on March 17, 2014, under the codename Freshman 15.
00:29:41.000 The investigation concerned allegations that Fang Fang used American conduits to hide foreign national campaign contributions and that access.
00:29:50.000 You know, or internships were exchanged for contributions.
00:29:54.000 Basically, it was a straw donor money laundering scheme.
00:29:58.000 And the declassified FBI interviews summaries say that Swalwell acknowledged a sexual relationship with Fang and confirmed that she referred interns to him.
00:30:11.000 Just what we need, guys. 0.97
00:30:12.000 We need more government interns from communist China in the U.S., right? 0.98
00:30:17.000 Just what the taxpayer needed. 1.00
00:30:18.000 I'm sure it's going to work out great.
00:30:21.000 Which, you know, given what we know about Swalwell and interns, is, you know, concerning to say the least.
00:30:27.000 Check this out.
00:30:29.000 So here's something not so special.
00:30:32.000 Just some breaking moments ago, the Justice Department is now investigating sexual assault allegations against former Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell.
00:30:41.000 According to a source, they are beginning that investigation, and Democrats are facing questions now about what they know about this because there was quite a bit of rumor and buzz out there.
00:30:53.000 Did they decide not to mention this in a public forum?
00:30:57.000 Swalwell has denied these accusations, but he admits to, quote, mistakes in judgment.
00:31:02.000 The Wall Street Journal reports that there were, quote, whispers about his behavior with women for years.
00:31:09.000 Quote, Alex Evans, a former Swalwell chief of staff who was working for a super PAC supporting Swalwell's candidacy, said rumors came up in endorsement conversations and, quote, as the last box that needs to be checked before they commit.
00:31:26.000 Evans said that he never saw that behavior that raised the red flags and, quote, he was living a complete double life.
00:31:34.000 Now, interestingly, Right as the Russia probe was heating up, right as Russia, Russia, Russia fever was going and while Comey was still in charge, the FBI removed him as a subject on February 8th, 2017, and never charged him.
00:31:50.000 Hmm.
00:31:51.000 Never charged him, allowed him to stay on the House Intelligence Committee, a really powerful position, allowed him to peddle fake spy problems, even though he was in one, in the midst of one.
00:32:05.000 And even before the campaign finance investigation, the FBI had actually tried to recruit Fang as a source under the codename Rusty Thumbs.
00:32:16.000 Well, freshman 15, Rusty Thumbs, Fang Fang.
00:32:19.000 Somehow, the least believable part of this case is the codenames.
00:32:25.000 Everything else is like, this is just some wild stuff.
00:32:28.000 It's yet another episode of South Park playing out with your taxpayer dollars right here in the good old United States of America.
00:32:28.000 It's happening.
00:32:36.000 And according to new reporting from Paul Sperry, Comey was giving Swalwell what were essentially defensive briefings about the whole thing in the middle of the investigation.
00:32:48.000 Think about that.
00:32:49.000 The head of the FBI is giving this guy and telling him what he needs to know to keep him out of it when he's literally in the middle of it.
00:32:56.000 And also, according to Sperry, Swalwell told agents that he could not remember any of the pillow talk because, you know, he was taking Ambien to sleep.
00:33:08.000 I'm sure that's what was happening.
00:33:10.000 I'm sure that's what was happening.
00:33:12.000 So, That's the story Swalwell was trying to sell while he was apparently working with Fang Fang on donor scams, intern placement, and God knows what else.
00:33:22.000 But like I said last week, while Democrats are finding new and creative ways to embarrass themselves, Team Trump is doing the boring work, like securing investment for more American jobs.
00:33:35.000 My father was back at it again this weekend, spotlighting plants, jobs, investments, and the companies moving production into the United States.
00:33:44.000 Check it out.
00:33:46.000 If we keep making money like we're making, we're the hottest nation anywhere in the world right now.
00:33:51.000 Hottest.
00:33:52.000 We're building more plants and factories than any country anywhere in the world in history.
00:33:58.000 Think of it.
00:33:59.000 We're building, and the jobs are going to be fantastic.
00:34:02.000 You know, in a couple of years, two and a half years, somebody's going to be elected.
00:34:09.000 And will you please remember one thing?
00:34:11.000 Trump is the one that did it.
00:34:13.000 These factories are all going to be opening up.
00:34:16.000 They're going to be all opening up.
00:34:22.000 They're going to be opening up.
00:34:23.000 Opening up, and they're going to say how brilliant they were, right, Todd?
00:34:27.000 They're going to be saying, Brilliant.
00:34:33.000 Think of it.
00:34:35.000 We have $19.2 trillion to be invested in our country.
00:34:39.000 Tariffs.
00:34:39.000 You know why?
00:34:40.000 We're making a fortune with tariffs.
00:34:42.000 They like to say, Oh, tariffs here.
00:34:43.000 They have no idea what they're.
00:34:45.000 Basically, if you build your plant here, if you make your product here, you don't pay tariffs.
00:34:49.000 If you make your product in another country, I say, I want you to pay 50%.
00:34:53.000 We don't want your product if you make it. 1.00
00:34:55.000 So they're all moving in.
00:34:57.000 And they're building, they're spending $19.2 trillion so far.
00:35:01.000 It's actually more than that because that's as of the first 13, 14 months, and it's been a little bit longer than that.
00:35:07.000 That's Trump at maximum, basically.
00:35:10.000 Building and believing and betting on America.
00:35:14.000 And it doesn't stop there.
00:35:17.000 Apple has committed $600 billion, okay, not million, which is still a pretty big number, but $600 billion to U.S. investments over four years.
00:35:28.000 It's Houston operation.
00:35:30.000 Is expanding Mac Mini production to the United States for the first time later this year.
00:35:37.000 The company says it sourced more than 20 billion American made chips from 24 factories in 12 states, and its advanced manufacturing center is training workers and suppliers in Houston now.
00:35:52.000 A product, a location, a plant, a timeline, a workforce.
00:35:59.000 Amazing.
00:36:00.000 And it gets to the point of the whole show.
00:36:03.000 Americans are exhausted by systems that grade themselves and always give themselves an A, no matter what, whether they fail or not.
00:36:10.000 They get an A and they get to keep doing the same thing, even when they should be getting an F, or probably worse, just dropping out entirely. 0.75
00:36:17.000 They want the border checked, the visa checked, the license checked, the invoice checked, and the promise kept in check.
00:36:26.000 If crime is down, show the number.
00:36:28.000 If the FBI seizes the fentanyl, show the weight.
00:36:31.000 If the state issued the license correctly, open the record for everyone to see it. 0.95
00:36:37.000 If the program stopped fraud, show where the money went and then go after the clowns that stole it.
00:36:44.000 If the factory is coming, show us the factory, or since these things do take years, show us the progress that's being made.
00:36:52.000 That's the whole point.
00:36:53.000 That's why I do this show.
00:36:55.000 That's why my father works so hard.
00:36:57.000 This stuff matters, it's important.
00:36:59.000 We're not doing this for us, we're doing it for our kids.
00:37:02.000 And before we go, we do have one piece of fun news because Washington is about to do something.
00:37:09.000 That does not involve a hearing, a subpoena, or a 75 page motion.
00:37:15.000 Next weekend, IndyCars are going to tear down a 1.7 mile street circuit around the National Mall for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix.
00:37:26.000 The race is scheduled for August 23rd.
00:37:28.000 It is the first IndyCar street race in the Capitol ever.
00:37:34.000 And the cars will be moving, let's just say, a little faster than the usual Pennsylvania Avenue motorcade.
00:37:40.000 Okay?
00:37:41.000 Maybe quite a bit faster.
00:37:42.000 The White House.
00:37:44.000 Put out the final one week teaser on Sunday, and it's pretty epic.
00:37:48.000 Check it out.
00:37:49.000 The Freedom 250 Grand Prix is now just a few weeks away.
00:37:52.000 It's something that we've never seen before.
00:37:54.000 Here's the deal I'm the best there is, plain and simple.
00:37:57.000 I mean, I wake up in the morning, I'm just excellent.
00:38:04.000 Freedom won't just ring this summer, it will also rev. The historic chorus will showcase the country's most iconic buildings and monuments.
00:38:13.000 This is a big, hairy American winner, Dave.
00:38:17.000 You're first, you're last.
00:38:31.000 250 years of America, open wheeled cars flying past the Capitol, hundreds of thousands of people downtown, and somewhere a Washington bureaucrat is staring at a noise ordinance with tears in his eyes.
00:38:47.000 Well, guys, that's a good way to end this one because after a week of audits, lawsuits, tax sources, fraud files, sometimes the country should be allowed to have a little bit of fun.
00:38:58.000 But keep the rule for today.
00:39:01.000 Okay?
00:39:02.000 Check the work. 0.54
00:39:03.000 The left hates that rule.
00:39:05.000 Check the work.
00:39:06.000 They hate it because so much of its power depends on nobody looking under the hood.
00:39:12.000 The permanent bureaucracy hates it because a measurable result creates a measurable failure.
00:39:18.000 And politicians in both parties hate it because a receipt is much harder to spin than a speech.
00:39:25.000 Your favorite president's best argument is not that every problem is solved.
00:39:29.000 Okay?
00:39:29.000 That's never going to happen.
00:39:31.000 Okay?
00:39:32.000 You got to bang them out one at a time.
00:39:33.000 But It is that government can still produce a result when somebody is willing to demand one.
00:39:42.000 Safer streets, poison seized, licenses verified, fraud exposed, factories opened, bridges repaired.
00:39:50.000 That's the standard.
00:39:52.000 Keep it, apply it to everyone, and never apologize for asking the people who spend your money and enforce your laws to prove that they did the job.
00:40:03.000 So, guys, thanks so much for tuning in.
00:40:04.000 Again, I hope you all have an awesome week.
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